TSR Christian Society

I think it's most relevant at the moment in issues like women bishops - appeasing the Forward in Faith lot can go to far, and there's a point where I think it would be better to put the proposals in place to have women bishops on equal terms with male bishops, and just let the people who don't like it go over to Rome, if they can't stick it. I know this is going off on a tangent slightly, but I guess what I'm trying to say is that tolerance and unity are great virtues, but not at the cost of failing to stand up to bigotry?

I didn't mention anything about salvation, I'm saying that it's part of the identification of being a Christian since it marks us out as belonging to Christ.

OT characters did get saved, certain ones obviously more than others, however I think what dreiviergrenadier meant was simply that there is a stark difference between having a title of being a "Christian" (even if you are a model one) and being a person of faith in God and longing to serve. People of the OT had no "Christian" title or even knowledge of Christ - which as the fundamental core of Christianity, is important - but they were still saved (some!).

So I also would agree with a few others here, there is a difference between "Christianity", "faith" and "belief".

Maybe that's a better way of putting it *gives cookie*

It's an interesting question that, which I asked myself a few years back and didn't get a straight forward answer -as is usual with many of these questions! think they believed God would save them, they just didn't know how (obviously). And because Jesus is God, albeit God the son -oh dear this is getting into the trinity ....

Pourquoi?

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

Ooh, I think I might have heard him speak before. Or it could have been someone else with a similar name. if it's the guy I'm thinking of, he was very very good. It was at Greenbelt a couple of years back.

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

Yes I agree that it's an outward sign of devotion, I just don't agree that baptism makes you a Christian.

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

Why do you many of you chose to follow 'modern faith' over the scripture?

It's logical hypocrisy.

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

What do you mean by that? What's 'modern faith'?

Modern Liberal positions contradictory to scripture.

Does anyone else keep their religious beliefs majorly on the low because they don't want to be mocked and insulted by fellow students?

Like what?

Yeah. It really is like a huge bubble here. It's so cool to just get up and be surrounded by believers and just be able to talk about God all day, I shall miss it when I go to uni and it's definitely going to be strange, but it will be awesome too.

How are most CU's with like evangelism and stuff? One of the ones at one of the unis in York goes out and feeds homeless people and talks to them.

I don't know about that many CUs, I think most are affiliated with UCCF, the organisation behind CUs, and UCCF is really keen to help students live and speak for Jesus while they're at uni. My old CU in Lancaster University was brilliant, they had a lunchbar every week in normal term time (a free lunch and talk event on different topics, each one clearly telling the Gospel) and also in normal term time a cafe evening event every other Friday for international students. Plus the CU would have a Bible study group based in the different colleges and every month during normal term time the Bible study groups would host a small evangelistic event.

As well as that, they had two concentrated weeks of events, one in Freshers' week and also a Mission week (I think my CU is doing that this week actually). Plus there are a couple of one off events over the year, e.g. Text for a toastie where people text a number asking a question and two Christians go, answer their question and give them a toastie.